Safety-razor



I. CLAIR.

SAFETY RAZOR.

APPLICATION man JUNE 11, 1919.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.,

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SAFETY-RAZOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

Application filed June 11, 1819. Serial No. 303,805.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ismonn CLAIR, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn,

in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new andImproved Safety-Razor, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

-My invention relates to safety razors, and aims more particularly toprovide a device of this nature in which all possibility of the usercutting himself is eliminated.

A further object of the invention is the provision of means associatedwith the razor whereby certain portions of the head and face may bebrought into the line of vision while the razor is in use.

It is well appreciated among the users of safety razors that adetrimental feature of almost allofthe present razors upon the market isthat the corners of the blade are not amply protected, so that upon therazor being held at a certain angle, and a stroke being executed, a verypainful cut will be inflicted upon the skin of the user.

In view of the foregoing, I have, therefore, devised a guard aiming toovercome this defect of present razors, by reason of such guardprotecting the corners of the blade and keeping them out of cuttingcontact with the surface of the skin at all times.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of means whichwill normally retain the cutting blade of the razor in proper contactwith the surface of the skin.

It is, further, well appreciated among razor users of any type that itis almost impossible for the operator of a razor to handle the same insuch a manner as to properly shave the back of his neck. Also, even withthe aid of a mirror, it has been diflicult to bring the edge of therazor blade into engagement with the surface of the skin at the exactpoint where the heard hegins and the hair terminates, as this portion ofthe face is hidden by the hand which is holding the razor, under normalconditions, and the proper position of the razor must be determined moreor less by instinct.

c l'is an end view of a'razoi'shbw- Figu ing t e lade in unseatedposition;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged bottom view of the head;

Fig. 3 is an elevational view of B31: blade 5 from out of contact withthe blade seat 2,

seat and guard;

Fig. 4 is a side View of my razor showing the handle therefor optionallyattached to the end or under face of the guard;

Flg. 5 is a sectional view taken through the head of the razor andshowing the blade in seated position and the handle attached to the endof the guard;

Fig. 6 is a side view of the razor with my reflector or mirror attachedthereto;

F1g. 7 is an end view of a razor with said reflecting attachmentapplied; and

Flg. 8 is a section taken along line"8-8 of Fig. 7

In all of these views like reference numerals desi ate similar parts andthe reference numera 1 indicates a handle, which may be optlonal, of aconstruction hereinafter more fully specified, attached either to theunderside or to the head of the razor. This'head lncludes a blade seat 2formed with outwardly-extending lugs 3. The blade 4 is placed upon theseat 2 and is held in applied position by means of a blade-depressingelement 5, which blade-depressing element is preferably formed with acurved under surface and an upper surface divided into two inclinedportions, and is further provided with pins 6 adapted to project throughopenings 7 formed through the blade seat 2 when the bladedepressingelement is drawn into proper position by means of the handle 1 havingits screwthreaded socket, with which it is provided,

engaging the stud 8 projecting downwardly from the blade-depressingelement 5, similar in operation to the Gillette type of razor.

The aforementioned construction is utilized where the handle 1 isattached, in the position illustrated in Figs. 1 and 6, to the head; butassuming that it is desired to apply the handle 1 to the head in themanner indicated in the lower partof Fig. 4, as in Fig. 5, associatedwith my handle 1 is a double-ended screw 10 whose inner end screws intothe screw-threaded opening in the upper end of the handle and whoseupper part engages any screw threads formed in a projection such as 11at any convenient part of the blade seat 2.

It will readily be understood that if I should combine the elements asjust described, the blade and its associated seat for the reason thatthe blade would not be blade-engagin in proper position for shaving. Toovercome this defect, when I apply my handle to the end of the head Iretain the head-depressing element in its proper position by means of ahand nut 12 which engages the stud 8 projecting downwardly from theelement 5. It will readily be appreciate that upon rotation of the nut12, by virtue of the latter being mounted upon the stud 8 and engagingwith its upper edges the underside of the blade seat 2, said blade seatand blade-depressing element would be drawn together whereby to retainthe blade 4 in proper position.

Referring now more particularly to the reflecting attachment 13 utilizedin connection with my razor, I would point out that the same may be anysuitable metallic or non-metallic reflector, which is bent inwardlythrough its central portion so as to present two reflecting surfaces 14and 15 to the eye of the user.

As is illustrated in Fig. 6 of the attached sheet of drawings, thereflecting attachment 13 may be secured to the blade seat 2 by means ofany suitable attaching means, such as screws 9, the attachment beingarranged at such an angle to the handle as to terminate adjacentthereto, as clearly shown in Fi 6.

n operation it will now be appreciated, assuming that the handle hasbeen attached to the head in the manner illustrated in Fig. 1 and thatthe blade-depressing element 5 has been drawn toward the blade seat 2 bymeans of the rotation of such handle, the blade will now be in theposition illustrated in Fig. 5. Contrary to the usual method ofprocedure, the razor handle in this instance is held outwardly at almostright angles to the face of the user, the inclined upper surface of theblade-depressin element 5 serving as a guide for the bla e and bladeseat 2, together with its lugs 3, and serves as an efi'ectual guardagainst any danger of cuttirzg the users face.

ssuming now that the purchaser desires to utilize my razor similarly tothe operation of a safety razor of the Durham Duplex type, it willreadily be appreciated that this may be done by simply detaching thehanagplying thereto efore the shavattempted, the nut 12 is employed asan ordinary straight razor, if

so desired.

Applied to the head of the razor, and preferably attached along itsupper edge, is a mirror, as indicated by the reference numeral 16, whichterminates at a point slightly spaced from the handle 1.

I wish it understood that any number of modifications may be resorted towithout in thc least departing from the scope of my invention, as fornstance, eliminating the projection from the head so that the razor maybe utilized in the same manner as that of the standard Gillette type. Itmight also be utilized with or without the mirror 16. Further, it willbe appreciated that I might readily withinthe scope of my invention,produce razors of the standard Durham Duplex type similar to theattachment illustrated in the lower part of Figs. 4 and 5, and that thehandles may be formed inte ral with the heads, if it is so desired.

aving thus described my invention, I

desire to claim:

1. A razor, including a head portion, a handle associated with such headportion, and a mirror attached to and extending downwardly from saidhead portion.

2. A razor, including a body portion, a handle associated with said bodyportion, and a mirror having its upper end secured to said body portionand having its lower end extending inwardly and downwardly therefrom.

3. A razor, including a body portion, a handle associated with said bodyportion, and a mirror having its upper end secured to said body portionand having its lower end extending inwardly therefrom, such mirror beingsubdivided into two separate surfaces at an angle one to the other.

' ISIDORE CLAIR.

